With Nate starting to grow well, things soon became a lot more settled, and a lot less stressful. Now all we had to contend with was tiredness and the prem thing, all of which seemed entirely manageable.
Nate was now 12 weeks old, nasal tube-less, and loving his new bottle. And within a month, we soon had over 5weeks of week-on-week solid weight gain! While still small, he was tracking well on his growth curve. We were extremely pleased :-)
With this growth, Nate's energy levels were also increasing weekly, and he was starting to show his personality more and more. He was proving to be such a character, and a complete chatterbox!
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| Pretending to pedal! |
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| Cheeky! |
We started to do more and more things with Nate....reading him books, having big chats, going out for walks in the neighbourhood, and even going out together for a weekend brunch. With Granny babysitting, I even managed a couple of days back at work. This was finally maternity leave as it was supposed to be!
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| SO excited to read with Daddy! |
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| Big smiles after a big chat! |
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| En route somewhere.... |
We also started to have a few more visitors, and Nate proceeded to charm all with his cheeky smiles, his noisy chatter, and his social nosiness (although in these shots, he looks worn out with all the excitement!). We also sent lots of photos and regular 'Nate Updates' to our families overseas.
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| Hanging with the gramps! |
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| Four generations of Ryans! |
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| Nate and his big sister |
Everyone was completely smitten with our gorgeous wee man, but no-one more so than Robin and I :-)
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| Nate's first Mohawk :-) |
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| Our beautiful boy! |
We started to interview potential nannies, while at the same time overseeing our house renovation which was starting to pick up pace - in this time we finalised the kitchen, the bathrooms, and the wooden floors. Exciting!
In fact things were going so well by now, that the NICU Homecare Team advised us that they were now discharging us. We looked forward to not having weekly nurse visits and even more time to ourselves, and thanked them for all of their support to date.
And then, all of a sudden, everything changed.
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